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>> No. 6281 Anonymous
1st March 2016
Tuesday 11:27 pm
6281 Vice
It's a poor fit as a place for a thread, but has anyone noticed that Vice is now really shit?

It used to do more investigative and hard-hitting journalism. Now it follows twitter feeds and posts think pieces about being stuck at work on a sunny day.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/female-video-game-developer-snaps-at-twitter-troll-results-are-fantastic-620

I can't help but this this is somehow related to Murdoch owning some shares...
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>> No. 6288 Anonymous
2nd March 2016
Wednesday 5:16 pm
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>>6287

Yeah. It annoyed me too. Even if she had truly 'schooled' him, I wouldn't have consider this worthy of an article. As it is, she just spent five tweets explaining how he's TECHNICALLY wrong, but not addressing his point, which is that the game looks like shit.
>> No. 6289 Anonymous
2nd March 2016
Wednesday 7:35 pm
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>>6283
fuck off, vice

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 6290 Anonymous
2nd March 2016
Wednesday 7:39 pm
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>>6289

Nice one, mate, you sure showed that bummer, with his bloody paragraphs and facts.
>> No. 6291 Anonymous
2nd March 2016
Wednesday 9:59 pm
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>>6287

It is the aftermath of gamergate, she was one of the main targets of it. The game's a bit crap and it looks like sweaty arse.

If this was released on Steam greenlight it'd just get passed over for looking awful. There's nothing noteworthy about it past the surrounding drama.
>> No. 6294 Anonymous
3rd March 2016
Thursday 12:26 am
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>>6291

As far as I was aware she wasn't a main target, but she kept on insisting she was and getting media attention for it, so the trolls picked up on her as an easy target, and in the end she got the martyrdom she wanted.

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>> No. 6246 Anonymous
17th December 2015
Thursday 8:44 pm
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>The winner of the 2015 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation, Allen Prowle, has withdrawn his entries and returned the prize money, amid claims of "blatant plagiarism".

>According to the Nederlandse Poëzie Encyclopedie newsblog, "International research by poetry translators and specialists in plagiarism from the UK, Netherlands and Denmark shows that in actual fact these aren’t superb translations at all, but blatant plagiarism. Allen Prowle, the lauded ‘translator’ simply lifted five translations wrought by the late James Brockway and the living Willem Groenewegen from the internet, slightly adapted them and subsequently submitted them under his own name."

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/stephen-spender-winner-withdraws-entry-returns-prize-money-318728

Pardon my ignorance, but are two translations of the same piece of poetry going to be wildly different?
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>> No. 6260 Anonymous
18th December 2015
Friday 1:15 am
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>>6253

If you think it's that simple, why don't you go and whack some foreign song lyrics into Google Translate and see what you come out with.
>> No. 6261 Anonymous
18th December 2015
Friday 1:21 am
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>>6260
You stupid, stupid man.
>> No. 6262 Anonymous
18th December 2015
Friday 1:48 am
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>>6259
I glad I convinced you given that I just reread my writing and realized what a fucking mess it was.
>> No. 6263 Anonymous
18th December 2015
Friday 2:14 am
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>>6258
I know you said this was a badly written post, but I'm assuming the sentiment is at least accurate, and if so then yes the plagiarism is necessarily a bad thing here. Although in general terms you're probably right that there's value in rephrasing existing translations, in this particular instance he entered the poems in a competition that specifies that entries should not be substantially based on previous translations. Fairly straightforward, that.
>> No. 6264 Anonymous
18th December 2015
Friday 2:17 am
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>>6261
Is there another kind?

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>> No. 5808 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 4:43 am
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What are your favourite first-hand accounts of war? I'm reading Nam by Mark Baker, a compilation of personal stories about the Vietnam war, and I'm finding it pretty fascinating. Here a few stories that were short/interesting enough to type out:

You take a group of men and put them in a place where there are no round-eyed women. They are in an all-male environment. Let's face it. Nature is nature. There are women available. Those women are of another culture, another colour, another society. You don't want a prostitute. You've got an M-16. What do you need to pay for a lady for? You go down to the village and you take what you want. I saw guys who I believe had never had any kid of sex with a women before in that kind of scene. They'd come back a double veteran. These were not men who would normally commit rape. They had not had psychological problems. Being in that kind of environment, you give a guy a gun and strange things happen.
A gun is power. To some people carrying a gun constantly was like having a permanent hard on. It was a pure sexual trip every time you got to pull the trigger.
I remember riding down to Hue City with a couple of guys and one officer one day. I had a .45 in a shoulder holster and a grenade launcher in my hand. I was making eyes at all the Eurasian women, the children of the French. Most of them spoke more than one language and they were educated women. I'd annoy them all to hell. Finally, when she'd say something to me, it would be in Vietnamese. And it would make me crazy. I'd want to kill her. The problem was, I could have.


I was enjoying the feel. There were a couple of guys saying they didn't enjoy the feel. That was junk. We had a sense that we was no longer that GI who had to march, who had to salute. That was shit. We didn't have to salute nobody. We dressed the way we wanted to dress. If I wanted to wear the boony hat, I wore the boony hat. If I wanted one sleeve up and one sleeve down, I did it. If I didn't want to shave, I didn't. Nobody fucked with nobody in the field. An officer knows if he messed with you in the field, in a fire fight you could shoot him in the head. This was standard procedure in any infantry unit. Anybody tells you differently, he's shitting you.
If you mess with my partner as an NCO or something like that, in the unwritten code there, I had the right to blow your brains out. And the guys would do it. Those lieutenants and the CO didn't mess with nobody in the field. They didn't say "Hey, soldier, why is your boot unbloused? Why is your hair long?" Everybody just said fuck it.
I had a sense of power. A sense of destruction. See, now, in the United States a person is babied. He's told what to do. You can't carry a gun, unless you want to go to jail. If you shoot somebody, it's wrong. You're constantly babied till you go to the grave. The only people's got authority is the judges or the Establishment.
But in the Nam you realised that you had the power to take a life. You had the power to rape a woman and nobody could say nothing to you. That godlike feeling you had was in the field. It was like I was a god. I could take a life, I could screw a woman. I could beat somebody up and get away with it. It was a godlike feeling that a guy could express in the Nam.


We were riding in a jeep, about five of us. The driver said jokingly, "Will anybody bet me that I won't hit that old woman walking along the side of the road?" There was an old woman walking along with a long pole over her shoulder, a big bag of rice on each end.
"Yeah, I dare you," one of the guys said. He just turned the wheel real quick and broke her damn hip.
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>> No. 6238 Anonymous
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>>6240

Not a real life account but some interesting propaganda anyway.
>> No. 6242 Anonymous
13th December 2015
Sunday 1:50 am
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>>6241
There is of course a lot of truth in all of that. The best propaganda is based on truth.

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>> No. 6213 Anonymous
2nd November 2015
Monday 1:11 am
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Long shot, but whilst reading S.H. I came across a word that means "opposing" as in "opposing forces". I don't really remember in which particular novel, but since I started reading S.H. in chronological order, I'd wager it's one of those novels.

I can't recall the word, other than some confusing combinations pop up in my mind, such as "ternacious" "calamicous" ternatious' tentatious, something like that.
Can you just simply list all the synonyms of the word "opposite", although I've already looked them all up, but to no avail. I'm certain, the word in question containted the letter "T", that's why the words with a lot of "T" come to my mind, I'd guess.
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>> No. 6215 Anonymous
2nd November 2015
Monday 4:09 am
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Oxford gives:
"1 the proposal met with considerable opposition
resistance, hostility, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, objection, dissent, criticism, defiance, non-compliance, obstruction, obstructiveness, counteraction;
dislike, disapproval, demurral
2 the home team made short work of the opposition
opponents, opposing side, other side, other team, competition, competitors, opposers, rivals, adversaries, antagonists, enemies
literary foes
3 the opposition between the public and the private domains
conflict, clash, difference, contrast, disparity, antithesis, polarity"

Collins gives
" = hostility, resistance, resentment, disapproval, obstruction, animosity, aversion, antagonism, antipathy, obstructiveness, counteraction, contrariety • " Much of the opposition to this plan has come from the media." OPPOSITES:
opposites: agreement, approval, support, cooperation, collaboration, assent, responsiveness, concurrence
= opponent(s), competition, rival(s), enemy, competitor(s), other side, challenger(s), foe, contestant(s), antagonist(s) • " The team inflicted a crushing defeat on the opposition.""
Beyond that it's not hard to find a few more online thesauruses and enter variants like 'opposing' or synonyms like 'antagonists' or 'opponents' yourself, using the magic of cut and paste to compile your own list.

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>> No. 5996 Anonymous
2nd July 2015
Thursday 3:02 pm
5996 BBC
Has anyone else noticed schoolboy mistakes on the BBC website?
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>> No. 6197 Anonymous
25th October 2015
Sunday 2:31 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24022774

"fleet-of-foot police officer"
Should be plural.
>> No. 6198 Anonymous
25th October 2015
Sunday 2:40 pm
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>>6197
We're not falling for that one either.
>> No. 6217 Anonymous
11th November 2015
Wednesday 5:05 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34758441

Its claims to have downed the Airbus were initially treated with scepticism.

Should be an apostrophe for it's.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 6218 Anonymous
11th November 2015
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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>>6217
I hope that was a lifetime ban.
>> No. 6219 Anonymous
19th November 2015
Thursday 1:48 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29529578

Hah.

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>> No. 6135 Anonymous
29th August 2015
Saturday 3:53 am
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I bought this under the impression that it was a book from which some of the source material for Half Life's storyline came. I may have misread something about it on the internet, but it is one of the three books you can find in Gordon's locker at Black Mesa.
Turns out, it's mostly about a eunuch who stalks California, castrating and murdering young homosexuals so they join his ghost retinue that he can only see at night.
There is a slightly odd preoccupation with crowbars, so there is that. As well as gratuitous amounts of gay sex. Not particularly graphic, but it's there.

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>> No. 6113 Anonymous
19th August 2015
Wednesday 7:37 pm
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Funny cunts of .gs:

The new series of Newsjack starts next month. They accept open submissions for topical comedy sketches and one-liners, so anyone can have a go at writing for radio. If they use your sketch then you'll get a proper credit and be paid at standard BBC rates. Several Newsjack writers have gone on to become full-time comedy writers, so it's a great opportunity. As an added bonus, there's a chance that your sketch will be read by ARE NADIA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1hDdvFLfWClPHW7zT3sq01S/submit-a-sketch
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>> No. 6117 Anonymous
20th August 2015
Thursday 9:33 pm
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>>6115
>New poll of Labour party members shows Ghost of Thatcher still more popular than Liz Kendall.
>Australian cricket captain loses fortune on blackjack, still can't get more than 16.
>Lib Dems now officially smaller than blazin squad, and about as popular.
>Following more accusations of friendships with dangerous warmongers, Jeremy Corbyn denies every meeting Tony Blair.
>> No. 6118 Anonymous
20th August 2015
Thursday 11:12 pm
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>>6114
> My comedy is mostly observational or reactionary and comes completely organic from me trying to be a cunt.

Probably the funniest chap I've ever known swore that every little drop of hilarity that burst forth from him was just the product of a desire to amuse himself, usually by saying the [nastiest/least appropriate/cleverest/some amalgamation of the above] thing possible. It worked.
>> No. 6126 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 2:28 pm
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>>6113
I'm going to tell the Job Centre I applied for this.
>> No. 6127 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 2:29 pm
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>>6118
Cheers mate, about time someone gave me recognition.
>> No. 6129 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 2:31 pm
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>>6118
He's probably right on the money there.

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>> No. 6110 Anonymous
17th August 2015
Monday 11:54 am
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Has anyone tried this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqPH3kDyfCg
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>> No. 6111 Anonymous
17th August 2015
Monday 1:45 pm
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>>6110

I can't really relate to his sense of urgency or his short attention span when reading. It sounds like he has ADHD. That observation doesn't come from a bad place, I just find it weird and difficult to reconcile discussing the concept of efficiency when it comes to recreational reading and the way he describes his problems sounds like an attention deficit. It seems like a pretty good study technique though.

IMHO, I think quantity is not the be all and end all of what you should be aiming to achieve from recreational reading. Instead, appreciating the prose; the flow and the structure of the plot; the subtle arts of misdirection and intrigue is something which take a little more time. He may very well be absorbing these novels in their entirety, but again I find this difficult to reconcile, although definitely not impossible.

I'd say give it a try, lad, and let us know how you get on with it, as I'm interested in hearing about how the experience differs, because the video doesn't really cover that. I can't really advise you though, start small or start big. By the sounds of things you can get a lot of reading into a short space of time.
>> No. 6112 Anonymous
17th August 2015
Monday 2:23 pm
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>>6110

cool, i guess, but what's the point?

you could probably watch a film at 2x speed while reading a copy of the script. you might 'take in' details about the film at twice the speed, which is 'efficient'. but reading is about more than internalising information.

the only way i could think of using this is for uni-related reading. and, let's be honest, how many books you read in uni have a readily available audiobook..

(A good day to you Sir!)

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>> No. 6084 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 3:11 pm
6084 Booktubers
are mostly shit but this guy's not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdTODQlrZs
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>> No. 6087 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 8:36 pm
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>>6086

Well, at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone for ever. All walks of life: George Best, for example, had it and lost it, or David Bowie, or Lou Reed
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28th July 2015
Tuesday 8:36 pm
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It takes exactly one minute and thirty seconds for him to actually start talking about anything. My first impression of him is that's he's a mostly shit twat.
>> No. 6089 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 8:38 pm
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>>6087
You've got it, lose it, flip it, stick it, and see you later bye
>> No. 6090 Anonymous
28th July 2015
Tuesday 9:26 pm
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>>6089
Doesn't that just make us harder, better, faster, stronger?
>> No. 6091 Anonymous
29th July 2015
Wednesday 11:30 am
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>>6084
Most cunts that talk about fuck all in front of a camera should be gassed.

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>> No. 6022 Anonymous
18th July 2015
Saturday 4:41 pm
6022 The Nether
By Jennifer Haley
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>> No. 4914 Anonymous
7th January 2013
Monday 4:05 pm
4914 Poetry
Time for a poetry thread. Post poems from your favourite poets, dead or alive.

Crushed under black clouds

Lodged in darkness
Is he a beggar or a god?
As he wanders from house to house
He speaks in tunes suffused with pain
A heart weighed with compassion. - Laxmi Prasad Devkota
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>> No. 5370 Anonymous
6th November 2013
Wednesday 12:54 pm
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Peaches

A mouthful of language to swallow:
stretches of beach, sweet clinches,
breaches in walls, bleached branches;
britches hauled over haunches;
hunches leeches, wrenched teachers.

What English can do: ransack
the warmth that chuckles beneath
fuzzed surfaces, smooth velvet
richness, splashy juices.
I beseech you, peach,
clench me into the sweetness
of your reaches.
>> No. 5992 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 12:07 am
5992 Something for the nuns, the touts, the grocery clerks, and you…
we have everything and we have nothing
and some men do it in churches
and some men do it by tearing butterflies
in half
and some men do it in Palm Springs
laying it into butterblondes
with Cadillac souls
Cadillacs and butterflies
nothing and everything,
the face melting down to the last puff
in a cellar in Corpus Christi.
there's something for the touts, the nuns,
the grocery clerks and you . . .
something at 8 a.m., something in the library
something in the river,
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>> No. 5993 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 12:26 am
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There was an old bugger called God
Who put a young virgin in pod
This disgraceful behaviour
Begot Christ our saviour,
Who died on a cross, poor old sod.
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4th June 2015
Thursday 5:10 am
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Breakfast beers at 5 in the morning and I'm euphoric, reading Knots by R D Laing. Here are the first few pages: http://www.oikos.org/knotsen1.htm
>> No. 5995 Anonymous
4th June 2015
Thursday 11:10 pm
5995 John Donne - Death Be Not Proud
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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>> No. 5585 Anonymous
7th July 2014
Monday 1:06 pm
5585 Favourite Poems and Quoates?
Welcome is sleep, more welcome the sleep of stone. Whilst crime and shame continue in the land; My happy fortune, not to see or hear; Waken me not - in mercy, whisper low.

-Michelangelo Buonarroti

(A good day to you Sir!)
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>> No. 5980 Anonymous
10th May 2015
Sunday 11:38 am
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'Twas an evening in November, as I very well remember,
I was walking down the street in drunken pride.
But my knees went all a-flutter, so I rested in a gutter,
And a pig came 'round and laid down by my side.

Yes I laid there in the gutter thinking thoughts I could not utter
when a colleen passing by did softly say:
"You can tell a man that boozes by the company he chooses"
And then the pig got up and walked away!
And, then, the pig got up and walked away.
>> No. 5981 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 5:52 pm
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By Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
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>> No. 5982 Anonymous
11th May 2015
Monday 10:28 pm
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Gay.
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13th May 2015
Wednesday 10:23 am
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I was always a little in awe of her for sometimes her eyes held a dark, blasted lightning and her face fell into the carven lines of the statue of a philosopher.
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4th June 2015
Thursday 12:02 am
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a poem by bukowski that has resonated with me for years, about his late wife...

225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
they have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket.
is this how it works?
in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.

when you left
you took almost
everything.
I kneel in the nights
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>> No. 5956 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 3:35 pm
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>> No. 5971 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 10:23 pm
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>>5965

oh god those last words just made me ball my eyes out. I only ever read a few of his books. But what a great last statement to leave it all on, the stoic decorum of it.
>> No. 5972 Anonymous
12th March 2015
Thursday 10:49 pm
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I hope you meant to say "bawl" your eyes out. The alternative sounds a rather extreme reaction.
>> No. 5973 Anonymous
13th March 2015
Friday 12:30 am
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Went out for a pint tonight and totally forgot all about this for a few hours. Just came home and got whacked around the face with it again.

I'll always have a soft spot for all the Discworld books, and when I was a wee lad I loved the Truckers/Diggers/Wings trilogy and the Johnny ... trilogy. I'll agree with a couple of the other lads here who vaunt Night Watch as being one of his best. I think it was right at the apse of the writing style he began developing around the end of 1989 when the Discworld novels became less hardcore fantasy and more comedic, but before the embuggerance began to take hold. Notable mentions go to Men At Arms, Feet Of Clay, The Truth and Maskerade, however.

Goodnight, PTerry. You shall be missed.
>> No. 5974 Anonymous
13th March 2015
Friday 7:45 am
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>>5972

THANKS FOR POINTING OUT MY MISTAKE, JERK.

Now I feel even worse, I might actually ball my eyes out!

WAAAAAAAAAA!
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13th March 2015
Friday 5:17 pm
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His recent ones get a lot of stick but I thought Going Postal was excellent.

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>> No. 5949 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 1:27 pm
5949 Travel guides
Afternoon, lads.

Are travel guides worthwhile in this day and age? I'm going abroad next month for the first time in quite a while and I was considering getting either a Lonely Planet or Eyewitness Travel guide to keep handy in the apartment, but I wasn't sure if I'd be wasting me money (albeit less than a tenner) and I'd be better predominantly relying on the internet instead.
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>> No. 5950 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 1:33 pm
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I like them, if that helps.
>> No. 5951 Anonymous
9th March 2015
Monday 1:40 pm
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>>5949

They can be handy even though all the info may not be up to date, but you can find almost anything you'd want to know about the country you're visiting online now anyway.
>> No. 5953 Anonymous
10th March 2015
Tuesday 3:48 pm
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Just get them for free from the library. Though they added to the weight of my luggage considerably when I last went Interrailing (mainly because I brought a guide for each city we were visiting, which I regret).
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10th March 2015
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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Wikitravel is also worth checking out. I don't know how it compares to a travel guide, but a visit to Smiths or the library can tell you that one.
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10th March 2015
Tuesday 9:41 pm
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I think they're useful as a baseline to work from. A good travel guide should cover all the tourist highlights, and fill you in on any practical or cultural issues you should know. The internet can be really useful for finding places off the beaten track or that have niche appeal, but guidebooks generally do a better job of the basics. They're written by professionals who have spent a good amount of time in the country and are at least trying to be impartial.

I tend to cut the spine off my guidebooks and keep the loose pages in a plastic wallet, chucking out things that I'm not interested in or don't need any more. I'll print stuff out from the internet and stick that in the folder as well.

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